Phoenix rising: be prepared for evildoers!

A San Antonio-based homeland security and situational awareness solutions consulting firm just became the first and only commercial reseller of MITOC, a portable, on-the-scene communications command center for emergency field situations.

Phoenix Disaster Services – and you can see a video demonstration of the MITOC at the same link – developed a reputation in emergency communications consulting with its own proprietary software development.

MITOC was developed through a partnership between the University of Louisville, Murray State University’s Center for Telecommunications Systems Management and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with the National Institute for Hometown Security, provided $1.1 million for the three-year research grant.

”There’s a growing need for portable communication command solutions,” said Brian Dopp, president of Phoenix Disaster Services. ”And for the many agencies that missed out on Homeland Security funding and didn’t receive grants to purchase mobile command centers, MITOC provides a cost effective solution that meets their communication needs at a price they can afford.”

The acronym MITOC stands for Man-Portable Interoperable Tactical Operations Center, but the video is much more informative than that laboriously long name, so check it out.